One possible reason for slow access to US sites..
 

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/01/level3_robbery/

Apparently, a data centre belonging to level 3 (who, IIRC, supply part of NTL's US connection bandwidth) was broken into last night, and had several router cards stolen..

Re: One possible reason for slow access to US sites..
 

Oddly, todays interweb access has ben alot faster.

Re: One possible reason for slow access to US sites..
 

And what are you going to do with Cisco router cards?

Re: One possible reason for slow access to US sites..
 

well we have to pay for hosting CF somehow don't we ;)

Stu have you setup those ebay auctions yet? :p:

Re: One possible reason for slow access to US sites..
 

LOL :)

Re: One possible reason for slow access to US sites..
 

Actually, I was thinking more of a ransom for them..